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Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 3,712 ratings — published 2004
Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 7,172 ratings — published 2007
Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.61 — 3,483 ratings — published 2011
The Spirit of the Liturgy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.56 — 2,348 ratings — published 1999
Introduction to Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,972 ratings — published 1968
Milestones: Memoirs: 1927 - 1977 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 406 ratings — published 1977
The Nature and Mission of Theology: Approaches to Understanding Its Role in the Light of Present Controversy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108 ratings — published 1995
God Is Near Us: The Eucharist, the Heart of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 362 ratings — published 2001
Saint Paul (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 424 ratings — published 2009
The God of Jesus Christ: Meditations on the Triune God (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 121 ratings — published 1976
The Apostles (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 596 ratings — published 2007
The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 76 ratings — published 1960
God is Love: Deus Caritas Est (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.54 — 3,137 ratings — published 2006
Gospel, Catechesis, Catechism: Sidelights on the Catechism of the Catholic Church (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 54 ratings — published 1997
Last Testament: In His Own Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 932 ratings — published 2017
The Fathers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 575 ratings — published 2008
Theological Highlights of Vatican II (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 89 ratings — published 2009
Heart of the Christian Life: Thoughts on the Holy Mass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ratzinger)
avg rating 4.23 — 52 ratings — published 2010
Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 342 ratings — published 1977
God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 256 ratings — published 2002
Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 349 ratings — published 1990
Salt of the Earth: The Church at the End of the Millennium - An Interview With Peter Seewald (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 689 ratings — published 1996
'In the Beginning...' A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 703 ratings — published 1986
Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 349 ratings — published 1996
Principles of Catholic Theology: Building Stones for a Fundamental Theology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ratzinger)
avg rating 4.36 — 61 ratings — published 1987
Ratzinger's Faith (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 73 ratings — published 2008
Mary: The Church at the Source (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 250 ratings — published 1980
Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith: The Church as Communion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 62 ratings — published 2005
The Feast of Faith: Approaches to Theology of the Liturgy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 78 ratings — published 1981
The Blessing of Christmas: Meditations for the Season (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.59 — 174 ratings — published 2005
Theology of the Liturgy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 37 ratings — published 2012
Daughter Zion: Meditations on the Church's Marian Belief (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 185 ratings — published 1977
The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 527 ratings — published 2005
Behold the Pierced One (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ratzinger)
avg rating 4.55 — 141 ratings — published 1986
The Ratzinger Report: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ratzinger)
avg rating 4.42 — 278 ratings — published 1998
Credo for Today: What Christians Believe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 46 ratings — published 2006
Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 236 ratings — published 2005
Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times - A Conversation with Peter Seewald (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,013 ratings — published 2010
The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and the Church (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.52 — 56 ratings — published
A School of Prayer: The Saints Show Us How to Pray, Complete (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.67 — 140 ratings — published 2012
With God You Are Never Alone: The Great Papal Addresses (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 25 ratings — published
Dogma and Preaching (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 38 ratings — published 1977
Verbum Domini: The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 168 ratings — published 2010
On Love: Selected Writings (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.48 — 29 ratings — published 2020
God's Revolution: World Youth Day and Other Cologne Talks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 17 ratings — published 2006
Many Religions, One Covenant: Israel, the Church and the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 75 ratings — published 1998
Values in a Time of Upheaval (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 115 ratings — published 2005
What It Means to Be a Christian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 153 ratings — published 2006
Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church through the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 62 ratings — published 2011
Holy Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 139 ratings — published 2011
“And above all, what a strange attitude that actually is, when we no longer find Christian service worthwhile if the denarius of salvation may be obtained even without it! It seems as if we want to be rewarded, not just with our own salvation, but most especially with other people's damnation - just like the workers hired in the first hour. That is very human, but the Lord's parable is particularly meant to make us quite aware of how profoundly un-Christian it is at the same time. Anyone who looks on the loss of salvation for others as the condition, as it were, on which he serves Christ will in the end only be able to turn away grumbling, because THAT kind of reward is contrary to the loving-kindness of God.
-What It Means To Be A Christian”
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-What It Means To Be A Christian”
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“The war on Christianity was also made manifest in the efforts to introduce neopaganism into the lives of the people. Joseph Ratzinger recalled that a young teacher in the village erected a maypole as a symbol of the pagan concept of the “life force.” He organized festivals for the summer solstice in homage to the sacredness of nature and dismissed traditional notions of sin, virtue, and redemption as alien ideas imposed by the cultural imperialism of the Jewish and Roman religion of Christianity. The old religious ideas had to make way for the new order, and the new order demanded a new age. Sixty years later, in his memoirs, Cardinal Ratzinger compared the anti-Christian neopaganism of the Nazis with the anti-Christian neopaganism of our own day: “When nowadays I hear how in many parts of the world Christianity is criticized as a destruction of individual cultural identity and an imposition of European values, I am amazed at how similar the types of argumentation are and at how familiar many a turn of phrase sounds.”
― Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith
― Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith
